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Old Jul 18, 2017, 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by battlesymphony View Post
I usually think to myself 'I don't exist' when I'm dissociating. I feel very disconnected from my body and feel like I'm just floating around inside my head. I end up dissociating mostly after I've intensely noticed something about myself.
Can't recall experiencing anything even remotely close to this. I mean, I can be VERY in my head, but it's never quiet enough for me to feel disconnected I think.

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Originally Posted by childofchaos831 View Post
The driving scenario is dissociation, but so is floating above your body looking down or completely losing time and not remembering at all. It's actually a spectrum, so the driving one is pretty normal. The more serious it gets, the more it is actually a symptom of something. For me, I lose time or just kinda stare off into space mostly. I also have a dissociative disorder tho, so my dissociation is a little more severe than some.
I knew I could never be on the level of DID. Not the floating thing. Losing time maybe, but I just wanted to see if anyone said anything that I could say, "YES!" but not really. Except the car thing. I mean, I "zone out" standing on line sometimes. I know this because when I snap back it's usually because someone thinks I'm staring at them but if anyone says anything to me (that would usually be someone I know) I tell them I wasn't looking AT them, I was looking THROUGH them.
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